Besides China, which other countries in the world can also speak Mandarin?

At present, the population whose mother tongue is Chinese accounts for one fifth of the world population. So besides China, which other countries in the world can also speak Mandarin?

In Singapore, Chinese account for more than 75% of the total population. In history, Singapore and Malaysia once joined forces to become Malaysia, and later became independent in 1965, officially becoming Singapore. So Singapore is both a city and a country.

In fact, Chinese Singaporeans play a very important role in the development of Singapore. However, for the sake of national unity and national harmony, the Singapore government adopted Malay as the national language of Singapore to protect the rights and interests of the original Singapore residents. However, the Constitution stipulates that Chinese is the official language, and most local Chinese can speak Mandarin and use the same simplified characters as mainland China.

There are also a large number of Chinese in Southeast Asia, so some countries use Chinese as a common language. Such as Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and so on. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a large number of Cantonese people from Fujian, the southern coastal area, went to Southeast Asia, resulting in many Chinese living in Southeast Asia.

Many people in China have a strong desire to protect their own culture, so Chinese language protection associations have been established in these countries, which have played a certain role in the development of local Chinese. Now there are Chinese communities in many Southeast Asian countries, and most Chinese are still able to use Chinese fluently and write Chinese characters.

So besides China, many countries in the world can also speak Mandarin.